Let’s get some of that tourist money

Share with: Desert Trail – Posted: Thursday, January 5 Every year two things happen, the first is we hear a report discussing how many millions of people have visited Joshua Tree National Park and how much money they left in the local economy. The second is residents, many of them business owners, complain that they have no idea where all those visitors and all that money has gone but that they know it did not go anywhere near them. Every year, it seems, there is a disconnect between the millions of visitors who come to the national park, the millions...